Microsoft’s Open-and-shut Case

Early this week, Microsoft announced the launch of a private ChatGPT platform called Azure ChatGPT. Supposedly, it was an alternative to OpenAI’s ChatGPT that guaranteed the privacy of data and was fully isolated from those operated by OpenAI. However, two days later, Azure ChatGPT was removed, and its GitHub repository was deleted.

It seems that the announcement of Azure ChatGPT by Microsoft didn’t sit well with OpenAI, and this might be the reason for removal of the private ChatGPT.

Microsoft's sales pitch was quite straightforward. Without mincing words, the tech giant stated, “ChatGPT risks exposing confidential intellectual property. One option is to block corporate access to ChatGPT, but people always find workarounds.”